Device for wrapping or forming cigarettes.



R. M. SKEELS.

DEVICE FQR WRAPPING 0R FORMING CIGARETTES. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 13.1914. RENEWED DEC. 1.1911.

Patented May 21, 1918.

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DEVICE FUR WRAPPING 0E. FORMING- CIGABET'JPES..

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, rate.

Application filed .lune 13, 19M, Serial Ito. 844,998. Renewed December1, 1917. Serial No. 20%886.

To all whom it may concern ]Be it known that l[, RAY M. SJKEELS, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Buflalo in the countyoflErie and State of York, have made a new and useful Improvement inDevices for Wrapping or of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for wrapping or forming cigarettesand one of the principal object of the invention contemplates theprovision of means for forming a cigarette of loose tobacco and anordinary cigarette paper with a minimum consumption of time and laborand with a maximum degree of proficiency.

Another object of the invention is to provide a cigarette rollerincluding an inner tube, an outer tube and .a forming band or stripadapted to co-act in compressing a portion of loose tobacco and rollinga cigarette paper around the tobacco for forming a cigarette.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of the classdescribed which will be extremely simple, durable, eflicient 1noperation and inexpensive to manufacture..

With these and other objects in view which will become apparent as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the construction,combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully describedand claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which likecharacters of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalfigures, of which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the device,the forming bandbeing removed.

Fig.v 2 represents a central longitudinal sectional View through thesame.

Fig. 3 represents a vertical transverse sectional view of the deviceshowing one step in the operation of rolling a cigarette.

Fig. 4 represents a view similar to Fig. 3, showing another step in theoperation, and

Fig. 5 represents a view similar to Flg. 3, showing still another stepin the operation.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the invention comprises aninner tube 5 formed of any desirable material, and provided withsubstantially heavy closed ends 6, said tube and ends being formed if,desirable from a single piece of metal the tube being provided on oneside with a longitudinal slot 7 running the entire length of the whichis of tube, said slot terminating atits ends at the end walls of thetube and being bounded at its ed es by the parallel rounded edges 8 formby the slot.

An outer tube 9 is provided and surrounds the inner tube, said innertube being rotatable relatively to the outer tube and the outer tube isprovided with a slot or opening 10 corresponding in width and length tothe slot in the'inner tube and said outer tube at its ends projectsslightly beyond the end walls 6 of the inner tube and is housed at eachend within an annular groove 11 formed in the inner face of buttons 12,which buttons are secured to the end walls 6 of the inner tube by anysuitable means, said means in the present embodiment including studs 13projecting centrally from the end walls 6 through central openings inthe buttons 12, said buttons being keyed as at 14: to the studs,whereby, as the buttons are turnedthe inner tube Wlll be rotatedrelatively to the outer tube.

A forming band or strip 15 is provided a width equal to the length ofthe slots in the tubes, and substantially equal in width to the lengthof the ordinary cigarette paper, said forming band being composed ofpaper, parchment, silk, rubber, or any other suitable fabric.

The operation of the device may be briefly described as follows:

The device may be held in the center in a horizontal position betweenthe thumb and first two fingers of the left hand and the inner tubeturned by means of the right hand end button so as to bring the slots inthe inner and outer tube into alinement. When in this position, theforming band is placed in the opening in the position indicated in Fig.3 so that its short end 19 is disposed toward, and its long end awayfrom, the operator, and tobacco is then oured into the inner tube uponthe forming and level with the edges of the inner tube and is packeddown with the first two fingers of the right and left hand of theoperator, and a cigarette paper indicated at 17 is then placed with oneedge touching the forming band adjacent the rear edge paper lyingsubstantially fiat toward the operator.

The outer tube being then held firmly, the

inner tube is turned toward or away fromthe operator into the positionshown in Fig. t to leave a slight opening 18 extending longitudinally ofthe device through which opening the two ends of the forming band extendand the edge portion of the paper extends, and the tubes in thisposition are held firmly in one hand while the end of the forming bandnearest the operator indicated at 19 is pulled toward the operator, thuscompressing the tobacco within the chamber and pulling the paper aroundthe same in the manner indicated in Fig. 5. This operation is continueduntil turned to again bring the slots into alinement and the finishedcigarette may be removed from the device.

' One of the important advantages of this device is that-a piece oftobacco leaf may be used in forming the cigarette, in place of theordinary paper, so that an all tobacco cigarette may be produced.

Although I have described the preferred embodiment of my invention, Imay desire tube, buttons suitably secured tow the end 'walls of theinner tube, whereby the latter may be rotated relatively to the outertube, the ends of said outer tube projecting beyond the ends of theinner tube, and being housed in annular channels formed in the innerfaces of said buttons, and a forming band composed of suitable materialand adapted to co-act with the forming device in compressing a portionof tobacco and rolling a paper around the same within the inner tube,substantially as described.

2 A device of the class described comprising an inner tube, an outertube, saidinner tube being rotatable relatively to the outer tube, saidinner and outer tubes each pro vided along one side with alongitudinally extending opening, the edges of the openings beingrounded, buttons secured to the inner tube at its ends,,said buttons attheir edges overhanging the outer tube, said outer tube extending at itsends beyond the inner tube, said buttons provided with grooves intowhich the ends of the outer tube extend, and a forming band of a widthsubstantially equalto the length of the openings in the inner and outertubes, and adapted to co-act with said tubes in forming a cigarette,substantially as described.

3. The herein described cigarette former comprising an outer tube havinga longitudinally extending slot in one. side thereof, an inner tubepositioned for rotation within the outer tube and provided with a slotadapted to be brought into and moved out of registration with the slotin the outer tube, buttons carried at the ends of the inner tube andproviding portions overhanging the ends of the outer tube journaling thelatter, and a forming band adapted to coact with the tubes in forming acigarette, substantially as described.

RAY M. SKEELS.

'Witnesses:

PETER T. EINHELLIG, OsoAB W. LAMBERT.

